Friday, September 19, 2014

Medal of Honor

Medel of Honor


 European Assault, the eighth game in the series, was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube in 2005.

Medal of Honor:Medal of Honor (MoH) is a series of first-person shooter video games. The first game was developed by DreamWorks Interactive (now known as EA Los Angeles, formerly Danger Close Games) and published by EA Games for the Play Stationgame console in 1999. Medal of Honor spawned a series of follow-up games including multiple expansions spanning various console platforms and the PC and Mac. The first twelve installments take place during World War II, while the more recent games focus on modern warfare.

History

The series first began in 1999 with Medal of Honor. The game was developed by Dreamworks Interactive, with a story by filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The game was released for the PlayStation on October 31, 1999.[2]

In 2000, Medal of Honor: Underground, the second game in the series, was released for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance.

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, the third game in the series, was developed and released for the PC in January 2002. Also has Extension Packs titled Spearhead (released in 2002) and Breakthrough (released in 2003).

Medal of Honor: Frontline, the fourth game in the series, was developed and released for the PlayStation 2 in May 2002 and the Nintendo GameCube and Xbox in November 2002. It was later remastered in High-Def and released in 2010 with the PlayStation 3 version of Medal of Honor (2010).

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, the fifth game in the series, was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo GameCube in 2003 (a planned sequel was cancelled due to the game's mixed reviews).

Medal of Honor: Infiltrator, the sixth game in the series, was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, the seventh game in the series, was released for the PC in 2004.

Medal of Honor: Heroes, the ninth game in the series, was developed and released for the PlayStation Portable in 2006.

Medal of Honor: Vanguard, the tenth game in the series, was released for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii in 2007.

Medal of Honor: Airborne, the eleventh game in the series, was developed and released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC September 4, 2007. It was the first game in the series to be nonlinear.

The twelfth game in the series; Medal of Honor: Heroes 2, was released for the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Portable on November 13, 2007.

Medal of Honor (2010), the thirteenth game in the series, was announced in 2008 as Medal of Honor: Operation Anaconda. The game was developed by Danger Close Games, a video game development team formerly known as EA Los Angeles merged in 2008. Medal of Honor (2010) was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on October 12, 2010.[3][4] Its multiplayer component was developed by the creators of the Battlefield franchise. It is the first Medal of Honor game to be set in the modern day rather than during World War II. Medal of Honor received generally positive reviews from critics, praising the game's engaging multiplayer, audio and voice acting but criticized the level designs, minor technical issue, and resemblance to other similar games like the Battlefield series. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 74.97% and 75/100,[5][6] the Xbox 360 version 73.11% and 74/100,[7][8] and the PC version 70.82% and 72/100.[9][10] The game was also a big commercial success with video game sales of over 5 million.[11]

The fourteenth installment in the series and the direct sequel to the 2010 game; Medal of Honor: Warfighter was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on October 23, 2012.[12] The game's storyline was written by real U.S. Tier 1 Operators, inspired by actual events. It is the first game in the series to run on EA Digital Illusions CE's Frostbite 2 game engine. Warfighter was both a critical and commercial failure, sold just over 300,000 copies in its first week in US.[13] Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox 360 version 55.79% and 53/100,[7][8] the PlayStation 3 version 55.40% and 55/100[5][6] and the PC version 51.43% and 55/100.[9][10]

In January 2013, COO Peter Moore of Electronic Arts announced that the Medal of Honor series was taken out of rotation due to the poor reception and sales of Medal of Honor: Warfighter.[14]


1999       Medal of Honor                DreamWorks Interactive              PS                                          
2000       Medal of Honor: Underground  DreamWorks Interactive
Rebellion Developments              PS                           GBA      
2002       Medal of Honor: Allied Assault   2015, Inc.                             Windows                             Mac OS X
2002       Medal of Honor: Frontline           EA LA     PS2
PS31      Xbox      GameCube        
2002       Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead2         DreamWorks Interactive                              Windows                             Mac OS X
2003       Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough2   TKO Software                    Windows                             Mac OS X
2003       Medal of Honor: Rising Sun         EA LA     PS2         Xbox      GameCube        
2003       Medal of Honor: Infiltrator          Netherock Ltd.                                  GBA      
2004       Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault EA LA                     Windows                            
2005       Medal of Honor: European Assault          EA LA     PS2         Xbox      GameCube        
2006       Medal of Honor: Heroes               Team Fusion      PSP                                       
2007       Medal of Honor: Vanguard          EA LA
Budcat Creations              PS2                         Wii         
2007       Medal of Honor: Airborne            EA LA     PS3         Windows, 360                   
2007       Medal of Honor: Heroes 2            EA LA
EA Canada           PSP                        Wii         
2010       Medal of Honor                Danger Close Games
EA Digital Illusions CE      PS3         Windows, 360                   

2012       Medal of Honor: Warfighter        Danger Close Games      PS3         Windows, 360                    

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